A Very Cleveland Christmas

In the ’80s, a Cleveland Christmas meant several things: Going downtown to Higbee’s to see Santa, watching Mr. Jingeling — the “keeper of the keys” — on TV and hitting the Twigbee Shop. The latter was a store-within-a-store which paired a helpful elf with young children, so they could shop for their parents’ presents by […]

Good Listening: Steve Poltz at Daytrotter

Kudos to Jeff Giles for hipping me to the just-posted Daytrotter Session with Steve Poltz.  Anybody who knows Poltz will know that he doesn’t mess around, so while some artists might play an unreleased song or two for Daytrotter, Steve played nine. As I said on Twitter, if you’re not hip to Poltz – get […]

Video: Cracker in Iraq

Earlier this week, I spoke with Cracker frontman David Lowery regarding the upcoming winter run of tour dates for Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven. The interview, which will run soon in the Riverfront Times, was a good opportunity to chat with Lowery about a number of subjects.  One of the things that I was most […]